Custom Visualizations, How to pass in plugin start lifecycle

sdeck51 · February 10, 2021, 8:14pm

Hi,

I was looking at the following example to see how a custom kibana viz is set up.

elastic/kibana/blob/master/test/plugin_functional/plugins/kbn_tp_custom_visualizations/public/plugin.ts

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import { CoreSetup, Plugin } from 'kibana/public';
import { VisualizationsSetup } from 'src/plugins/visualizations/public';
import { Plugin as ExpressionsPlugin } from '../../../../../src/plugins/expressions/public';

import { SelfChangingEditor } from './self_changing_vis/self_changing_editor';
import { selfChangingVisFn, SelfChangingVisParams } from './self_changing_vis_fn';
import { selfChangingVisRenderer } from './self_changing_vis_renderer';
import { toExpressionAst } from './to_ast';

export interface SetupDependencies {
  expressions: ReturnType<ExpressionsPlugin['setup']>;
  visualizations: VisualizationsSetup;

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From what I see we can create a react/base visualization in the setup lifecycle function of the plugin. This means we could pass setup lifecycle functions of various plugins into the visualization, provided I'm importing them. Is there anything I can do to pass imported plugin start lifecycle parameters into the visualization, given it's created in the setup function? In the example the start function is empty, and I have yet to find any other examples of a custom visualization that uses the start life cycle.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

rudolf · February 11, 2021, 10:50am

You can use CoreSetup.getStartServices to access start services.

There's an example of this api being used here Kibana Core API | Kibana Guide [7.11] | Elastic

system · March 11, 2021, 10:51am

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